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It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future.

Viktor E. Frankl

Man’s search for meaning is the chief motivation of his life.
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Chiefs Men Motivation
There are only two races, the decent and the indecent.
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Decent Race Two
Success, like happiness, is the unexpected side effect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.
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Causes Dedication Sides
Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord’s Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.
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Generation Men Our Prayer
A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes-within the limits of endowment and environment-he has made out of himself.
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Limits Men Self Ultimately
The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.
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Angel Glory Infinite
…to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life-daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct.
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Answers Meditation Thinking
What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
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Earth Mans Meaning Search
The more one forgives himself – by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love – the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.
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Actualization Causes Giving Self
You don’t create your mission in life – you detect it.
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Journey Life Missions
Happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy – it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself.
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Consequences Goal Psychology Unintended
When we are not any lengthier capable to alter a predicament, we’re challenged to alter ourselves
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Capable Ourselves Predicaments
Ultimately, we are not subject to the conditions that confront us; rather, these conditions are subject to our decision … we must decide whether we will face up or give in, whether or not we will let ourselves be determined by the conditions.
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Condition Confront Decision Faces Giving
The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
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Existence Mans Meaning Search
The last freedom is choosing your attitude.
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Attitude Choosing Lasts
I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
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Deeds Done Forget Good

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